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A Description of the Morning

Read and annotate the following poem. Feel free to respond to your peers' annotations. Then conclude by writing a statement that compares this poem to our previous poem, "The Chimney Sweeper."

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A Description of the Morning

BY JONATHAN SWIFT

Now hardly here and there a hackney-coach

Appearing, show'd the ruddy morn's approach.

Now Betty from her master's bed had flown,

And softly stole to discompose her own.

The slip-shod 'prentice from his master's door

Had par'd the dirt, and sprinkled round the floor.

Now Moll had whirl'd her mop with dext'rous airs,

Prepar'd to scrub the entry and the stairs.

The youth with broomy stumps began to trace

The kennel-edge, where wheels had worn the place.

The small-coal man was heard with cadence deep;

Till drown'd in shriller notes of "chimney-sweep."

Duns at his lordship's gate began to meet;

And brickdust Moll had scream'd through half a street.

The turnkey now his flock returning sees,

Duly let out a-nights to steal for fees.

The watchful bailiffs take their silent stands;

And schoolboys lag with satchels in their hands.

DMU Timestamp: August 14, 2020 20:51





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